ssmtp and msmtp installed, eselect mailer list empty?

[bssteph]

Okay, I'm not entirely sure if I'm barking up the wrong tree or not, but maybe someone can point me in the right direction. I have an x86 box with ssmtp and msmtp both installed. ssmtp is for various system level things to send mail through my ISP's server. msmtp is used as a sendmail replacement for myself in mutt, using other systems' mail; I'm pleased with both, they serve their purpose and send mail fine, etc. etc.

My problem though is the following: both packages want to make themselves sendmail/mailq/etc in /etc/mail/mailer.conf. Whenever either is merged, they want to overwrite the config. I want ssmtp to always be the system's mailer. It seems like eselect mailer is made for this, but mine is empty:

[terminal9]

It seems both ebuilds have a common misunderstanding of how mailwrapper works. They both copy a mailer.conf under /etc/mail, which should be named [profile].mailer instead and mailer.conf has to be symlink to one these managed by eselect.
You can rename mailer.conf of each ebuild with a .mailer extension to remedy your situation, eselect can then work as expected in this case.